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Investigation of Abnormal VTH/VFB Shifts Under Operating Conditions in Flash Memory Cells With \Al2\O3 High-\kappa Gate Stacks.
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IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices . Jul2012, Vol. 59 Issue 7, p1870-1877. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- \Al2\O3 high- \kappa stack is a strong candidate as the dielectric layer in Flash memory cells for technology generations beyond sub-20 nm. In this paper, the cause of abnormal VTH/VFB shift at low operating electric fields is investigated, i.e., VTH/VFB reduces at low positive gate biases and increases at low negative gate biases. It is found that this instability does not originate from the electrons trapping/detrapping from the gate nor from the dielectric relaxation. For the first time, extensive experimental evidences show that this shift is caused by as-grown mobile charges in \Al2\O3 layers generated by postdeposition annealing at 1000 ^\circ\C or above. Its impacts on program/erase windows and read/pass disturbance in Flash memory cells are also evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189383
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 77060576
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2012.2194294